I have it on during the day just out of habit and usually end up yelling at the stupid talking head on it anyways.
I get my news from the Internet for the most part and of coarse here on FR. DISH just keeps nickle and dimeing the prices up and we need to cut our budget even more with tax increases and insurance costs going up.
It became a no-brainer when my husband started becoming very irritated when he couldn't find the remote to mute the same commercials repeated day after day after day). He'd switch over to watch Spongebob episodes that he'd already seen 90 times before.
Our health insurance bills are going up substantially for 2011 so we cut back. Here's Fox News, insisting on extra nickels and dimes from all viewers in these tough times. This isn't the first time Fox News has done this. I have no desire to contribute to the salaries of Rupert Murdock, Bill O'Reilly, Shepard Smith, Alan Colmes, Marc Lamont Hill, Geraldo Rivera or Karl Rove. Neither of us misses it one tiny iota.